Martinet Captain Schemes for Wife and Shipboard Honor
Capt Boggs, a ruthless lake captain, plots to parade power over his crew to impress Maggie Bardell on his ship the Uncas. The scheme backfires as his mate Brennan refuses to submit, frees the woman from abuse, and confronts the captain amid a tense voyage to Chicago.
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Capt. Boggs
Bob
Mr. Brennan
Boges
Bardell
Maggie
Atlantic
Chicago
Boggs
Uncas
Buffalo
Brennan
Misa Bardell
Miss Bardell
Mr. Boggs
Miss Hurdell
Miss Buardell
Heroea
Ana
Martinet
Rememer
W. G. Chapman
Mexican ship subsidy spurs Galveston Tabasco service
Mexico grants a $1000 subsidy per round trip to a steamship operating between Galveston Texas and Tabasco. The line will run twice monthly and develop the banana and tropical fruit trade, noting Americans have begun fruit cultivation along Tabasco riverbanks.
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Galveston
Tex
Tabasco
Tabasean
Home Surgery Guidelines for Wounds and Fishhook Injuries
Practical instructions outline removing embedded fishhooks by forward movement or detachment, with cautions on crochet hooks. Punctured wounds are treated with hot fomentations and tepid dressings. Torn wounds need cleansing, adhesion, and careful compression. use carbolic oil dressings. For severe injuries heat aids healing. keep sloughing parts in hot water or fomentations.
Household Hints on Cooking and Cleaning Tricks
Practical tips on kitchen tasks and table presentation from a Woman's Life section. Instructions include delaying mixing French dressing oil and vinegar, boiling peach kernels for custard flavor, ivory stain removal with benzine, and adding sugar to water for cooking vegetables. Also covers boiler rust prevention with soap, tea-leaf stain removal in glass vases, serving puddings in sherbet glasses, and a quick green bean salad with bacon and vinegar glaze.
French seam method for neater finish on cuffs and ruffles
Instruction suggests sewing the seam, then turning only the plain fabric to finish. This avoids centering the seam, yielding a narrower, straighter stitch line and a neater overall look on cuffs sleeves and flounces.
Strawberry Salad with Lettuce and Mayonnaise
Recipe fragment describes choosing heart leaves of head lettuce and layering a few strawberries on each portion. Dust lightly with powdered sugar and top each with a teaspoon of mayonnaise. Serve with lemons.
Naming a Home and Other Tiny Tales
A slice of lighthearted excerpts on home naming woes and small daily snippets. A couplet of jokes and oddities covers naming a country home, a clever comb invention, and a humorous misadventure with candy. Interjected are quips about cake, weather, and curious observations from small towns.
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George Tickell
Lndies
George Conklin
New York
Scotland
Mr. Conklin
Man Conklin
Mexico
Hickory Ridge
Crestnook
Sunset Lodge
Laughalot
Rose Cottage
Edgewood
Crestlynn
Wierwood
Fernbank
Idlewild
Wnt
Xeww Hardware
North Pole
Powersville
Bewal
Ponoraville
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